The Skyraider was tough and durable and included extra armor plating around the cockpit to protect the pilot. While the A-1 entered service too late to fly against Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan ...

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO The Optimist Club of Marshalltown held it’s weekly meeting at Mama DiGrados restaurant on Jan. 9. The guest speaker was Don Feld, a former USAF pilot who flew the Douglas A-1 ...

Expected to replace the ageing, prop-driven A-1 Skyraider, the A-6 actually coexisted ... an unusual configuration inside the cockpit: the pilot and the bombardier/navigator sat side-by-side ...

That’s because the Pentagon needed a plane that could fly low and hover for protracted periods over a battlefield—a niche that jets couldn’t fill. In other words, the A-1 was America’s original Close ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 100. Stewart was one of the ...

Formula 1 is almost two months away ... introduced a new watch for the upcoming season: The Pilot’s Watch Mark XX Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team (reference IW328210).

An American Airlines pilot has gone viral after telling passengers he has "no higher calling" than "carefully" transporting ...

Ryan leaves behind a wife and 1-year-old son," the Parkview High School ... 60 Black Hawk at the time of the disaster. The instructor pilot in charge who was flying the helicopter had 1,000 ...

An American Airlines pilot reassured any passengers nervous of flying in a heartfelt pre-flight announcement following the ...

A US Air Force pilot safely escaped after an F-35 fighter jet crashed during a training mission at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska on Tuesday, officials said. The pilot experienced an “inflight ...

Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...